BBC In MELTDOWN - For All The Wrong Reasons
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The BBC is in crisis and for all the wrong reasons. What is going on right now is a scandal |
| 0:07.2 | and it is truly disturbing in terms of what it tells us about the direction that Britain is |
| 0:12.0 | heading in as well as much of the West. Now, Tim Davy, the Director-General of the BBC, |
| 0:18.5 | and Deborah Turner S, the CEO of BBC News, have resigned. |
| 0:22.1 | This comes after a leaked dossier written by Michael Prescott. |
| 0:25.9 | He was officially an independent advisor to the BBC's editorial guidelines and standards committee. |
| 0:32.1 | Now, Michael Prescott is a former chief political correspondent and political editor of the Rupert Murdoch owned Sunday Times |
| 0:39.4 | before becoming a corporate lobbyist. We will talk more about his appointment. Now, the dossier |
| 0:44.6 | was leaked to the hard-right daily telegraph. That's not an exaggeration. Telegraph's always been |
| 0:49.2 | a writing newspaper. But like the modern right across the West, it has become more and more extreme. |
| 0:56.0 | Now, the dossier alleges systemic problems at the BBC, the most high-profile centres on the |
| 1:01.7 | speech given by Donald Trump in January 2020 in advance of the attempted insurrection by his |
| 1:08.2 | supporters, which attempted to illegally overturn the election results after |
| 1:13.3 | Donald Trump lost the election, but Donald Trump repeatedly, falsely claimed that they were faked, |
| 1:20.9 | they were rigged, that he had actually won, which was a total lie. |
| 1:26.9 | And this centres on how the BBC programme Panorama edited that |
| 1:31.4 | speech in a documentary. But the dossier also makes allegations against the BBC's Arabic service, |
| 1:36.8 | accusing it of anti-Israel and pro Hamas biases, as well as allegations about its coverage of |
| 1:42.1 | trans rights, accusing the BBC's LGBTQ desk of not |
| 1:46.0 | covering stories, raising what it describes as difficult questions. We'll come on to all of that, |
| 1:51.8 | but let's just start with the Trump speech. What Panorama did is spliced together two different |
| 1:56.0 | parts of that speech, which were 50 minutes apart. In the original speech, he said, Donald Trump, |
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